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Adultery And Divorce
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I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
“You shall not commit adultery.
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →
I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →
Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
“You shall not commit adultery.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.
They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →
They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?” — read the full passage →
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →
If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, — read the full passage →
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
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